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Recent Posts:
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- Homegrown National Park
- Resilient Fall Bloomers
- Covering Ground – Preventing Weeds with Living Mulch
- Ecological Landscaping, another view
- What happened to 2019? (and the 1900’s for that matter!)
- Ramblings in May
- A Case for Non Native Plants
- Tri Color Beech for Summer color and winter bark
- School Trees Not Street Trees
- Live Stakes for Landscaping as Inexpensive Plants
- Two shade loving Asters that pollinators flock to
- Adding the Ground Layer to Finish an Ecological Garden Design
- Trees for wet areas and poorly drained soils
- Wildlife Friendly Garden Design
- Trees for Carbon Sequestration and Wildlife Support
- Landscaping for your grandchildren
- Purple Fountain beech as a perfect specimen
- Pollinator Garden Plan with Plant Descriptions
- Simple Prairie Planting
- Pondless Waterfall redo Plantings a Year Later
- Rain Garden for a Sunny Site
- 3 Native Perennials for Fall Interest You Might Not Know
- How will you celebrate Earth Day?
- 7 things landscapers do that tick me off
- Backyard with a Prairie and a Pond Part 2
- Ecological Landscape Design with a Prairie and a Pond Part 1
- My names not Annabelle! It’s Haas Halo Hydrangea!
- Pondless Waterfall Renovation
- Keeping Deer Ticks out of your Landscape
- A (mostly) Native Perennial Plug Planting Twelve Months Later
- North Star Cherry is a great smaller fruit tree
- Native Groundcovers beat the alternatives by not $#@ing up your environment
- Trees for an Ecological Backyard
- Native Plants of the Midwest Book Review
- Ecological Backyard Landscape Design
- Naturalistic Front Yard landscape design
- Planting Plugs is a Cheap and Easy Way to Plant a Landscape
- 12 Perennials for Attracting Butterflies in the Midwest
- American Hazelnut is a great native shrub for wildlife
- Backyard Landscape design finished
- Garden Revolution Book Review, one of my favorite new books
- Moving from functional diagram to design
- Landscape Functional diagram, a key step in creating a landscape design
- Appalachian Spring dogwood
- Finishing our Base Map adding sun, shade, and wind
- Simple Plant combos can be a solution to a garden area
- Looking at a site’s landscape soils
- Katsura tree is a great tree from Asia
- Base plan is the foundation of your landscape design
- Creating your landscape wish list
- Are straight lines a bad idea in a naturalistic garden?
- Gardener gift ideas
- The importance of a site assessment BEFORE you design your landscape
- Red vs Black Chokeberry, which is better for landscape use?
- Fascination in our Garden Can Clear and Restore Our Mind
- Wrapping up a Front yard using landscaper’s favorite plants
- Front yard using landscaper’s favorite plants part 2
- Front yard design using landscaper’s favorites
- 12 easy care perennials, landscapers favorites part 2
- Landscapers favorite perennials, Part One, one’s you might know
- The plants I hate to leave behind
- Positive and negative space in the garden
- Butterfly weed an orange flower for us all
- Landscapers favorite shrubs, some good, some not so good
- Landscapers favorite Hydrangeas are shrubs for Summer
- Landscapers favorite trees the good, the bad, and the ugly
- How close should I plant a tree to my house?
- Tough plants found by following a tough crowd
- Simple Spring clean up
- Virginia Bluebells signal Spring
- End of an era
- Switchgrass, a great native ornamental grass
- Backyard for Bird watchers part 5
- Backyard for bird watchers Part 4
- Backyard landscape design for birds Part 3
- Backyard for the birds, a Landscape for bird watchers Part 2
- Backyard for bird watchers
- What do you really want?
- The Living Landscape Book review
- Using plant associates to find native plant ideas
- Replace your lawn with?
- Tyranny of the turf
- Using plant textures in your garden design
- Plant texture in the garden
- Creativity in garden design
- Cheap easy fire pit
- Canadian ginger, a native made for the shade
- 100th post
- Plants for your Nature Inspired Garden: How to Find
- Land Cover Viewer for identifying natural areas
- Woodland inspired garden plants by layer
- Woodland as garden inspiration, finding local inspiration part 2
- Local Inspiration for your Nature Inspired Garden Part 1
- Japanese Garden How to Book Suggestions
- Smaller understory trees for a tight spot
- Blue and yellow evergreens
- Blue False Indigo (Baptisia australis), a native for today’s landscape
- Small backyard Japanese garden design Part 5 adding a tsukubai
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